Thomas Higgins

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“There are spiritual laws at work that most people know nothing about. So when others hurt us, our tendency is to strike back because we assume that we must defend ourselves, defend our name, our honor, our career, and so on. In reality we strike back at ourselves. ... What we consider as justifiable defense of our rights may in reality plunge us into a vicious cycle that can undermine our very spiritual foundation. By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience. this law also explains why saints, when hit, often would literally turn the other cheek. (Fr. Maximos)”
― Kyriacos C. Markides, The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality